Bangladeshi Siamese twins sep­a­rat­ed by Hun­gar­i­an doc­tors return home

Bangladeshi Siamese twins con­joined at the head who were suc­cess­ful­ly sep­a­rat­ed by a team of Hun­gar­i­an doc­tors in 2019, have returned to their home­town after two years.

Bangladeshi Siamese twins con­joined at the head who were suc­cess­ful­ly sep­a­rat­ed by a team of Hun­gar­i­an doc­tors in 2019, have returned to their home­town after two years.

The Foun­da­tion for Defence­less Peo­ple said that after their sep­a­ra­tion in August 2019, Rabeya and Rokaiya lived with their par­ents and sis­ter for 18 months at the Dha­ka Cen­tral Mil­i­tary Hos­pi­tal. For both chil­dren, a minor plas­tic restora­tive inter­ven­tion on the soft tis­sues is expect­ed to be per­formed by the foundation’s plas­tic sur­geons in a year’s time.

The twins were sep­a­rat­ed in a 33-hour oper­a­tion orga­nized by the Foun­da­tion for Defence­less Peo­ple in August 2019 in Dha­ka, Bangladesh, in what was the third step of a series of pro­ce­dures dubbed “Oper­a­tion Free­dom”. The first phase, includ­ing ground­break­ing work to sep­a­rate the blood flow of the brains, was con­duct­ed by a Hun­gar­i­an team led by István Hudák in Bangladesh in August 2018.

Prepara­to­ry surgery to sep­a­rate the twins was per­formed in Hun­gary in Jan­u­ary 2019. The marathon oper­a­tion in Dha­ka in August was car­ried out by a team of 35 Hun­gar­i­an doc­tors and assis­tants led by neu­ro­sur­geon András Csókay from Budapest’s Hon­véd Hospital.

Pho­to cred­it: Origo

Source: abouthun​gary​.hu